My music story : #13 : Tabla lessons with Dev

Dev sir, was in his late 40s when he started tabla lessons for me. He would be on time! What good a tabla player are you if you didn’t keep time! 

My dad wanted me to learn mridangam, but we bought a tabla! I found the one and half hour lesson boring and didn’t enjoy it. But years later, it came to use when I was trying to figure out rhythmic playing for challenging riffs with Slain and Allegro fudge. I learnt a bit about subdivisions of a beat and phrasing. I learnt tabla for a year. Then, there was no teacher. But the lessons that I got from Mr Dev was priceless.